Hillary Clinton slams Trump on LGBT rights

Washington, April 21 (IANS) Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed President Donald Trump’s administration for what she said were moves against LGBT rights, the media reported.

“Each time this administration elevates an outspoken opponent of LGBT equality, sometimes in particularly cruel ways like replacing the first openly gay Secretary of the Army with someone who called being transgender a ‘disease’, I picture all of the joyful, beaming couples that I’ve met across our country who are so excited to get married, start a family, and begin their lives together,” Clinton said on Thursday night during a fundraiser for an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community centre in New York.

The former presidential hopeful was referring to Trump’s pick of Mark Green for the post, NBC News reported.